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The Obama–CodePink–Hamas–Muslim Brotherhood Connection

by Eliana ( 225 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Blogmocracy, Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Hezballah, Islamists, Israel, Jihad, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Media, Progressives at January 20th, 2010 - 10:00 am

In a recent post on The Blogmocracy (Bernardine Dohrn & William Ayers vs Egypt), we discussed Obama pals Bernardine Dohrn & William Ayers and their newest mischief against Israel.

Dohrn and Ayers went to Egypt with “Code Pink” and others to try to stage a march into Gaza to try to force Israel and Egypt to open their borders with Gaza. In Caroline Glick’s article “Code Red on Code Pink,” she described Egypt’s reaction to the group:

Led by Code Pink founder and California Democratic fund-raiser Jodie Evans, the demonstrators were not welcomed by Egyptian authorities. Many were surrounded by riot police and barbed wire as they demonstrated outside the US and French embassies and the UN Development Program’s headquarters.

Bernardine Dorhn blamed Egypt’s response to their campaign as being Israel’s fault, but Caroline Glick describes Egypt’s reaction to this group later in her article:

the Egyptian authorities’ actions were clearly informed by their understanding that, with their ties to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbullah, Syria and Iran, Code Pink and its friends are active collaborators with the jihad war machine.

Code Pink and their friends also have ties to the White House:

Code Pink, for instance, is welcome at the Obama White House. Its leader Evans was an official fund-raiser for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Evans visited the White House after travelling to Gaza last June. While there she met with Hamas leaders who gave her a letter for Obama. Evans met Obama himself at a donor dinner in San Francisco last October where, while standing in front of cameras, she gave him documents she received in Afghanistan, where she met with Taliban officials.

Then, too, among the board members of the Free Gaza movement is former US senator James Abourezk. Abourezk is reputedly close to Obama and according to knowledgeable sources has been a key figure in shaping Obama’s policy towards Israel.

Then, too, like Evans, Dohrn and her husband, Ayres, are also friendly with the president of the United States. Dohrn and Ayres have been Obama’s political patrons since he launched his first campaign for the Illinois state Senate in 1996. In White House visitors’ logs, Ayres is listed as having twice visited the building since Obama’s inauguration.

The text of the letter from Hamas that Code Pink delivered to Obama in June 2009 is here: CODEPINK delivers peace letter from Hamas to Obama

Carl in Jerusalem wrote on his blog on January 13, 2010:

It seems that President Obama’s friends at Code Pink were protected by Hamas in Gaza, and have paid protection money both to Hamas and to Obama.

How deep are the ties between the so-called antiwar group Code Pink and the terrorist group Hamas? Deep enough that Hamas guaranteed Code Pink’s safety when the group led an international delegation of anti-Israel leftists to Gaza in late December for the ‘Gaza Freedom March.’

Code Pink claims to have delivered “tens of thousands of dollars in humanitarian aid” to Hamas-controlled Gaza to protest a blockade of the terrorist enclave by the civilized world.

Before Code Pink departed for Egypt where the march was based, co-founder Medea Benjamin told the Western Massachusetts publication The Reminder that Hamas “has pledged to ensure our safety.”

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Code Pink was co-founded by Jodie Evans, a top donor and fundraiser for President Barack Obama. Jodie Evans has maintained close ties with Obama and his administration throughout the first year of Obama’s term in office, including two visits to the White House in June just days after a previous Code Pink trip to Gaza where they were given a letter from Hamas to deliver to Obama….

When the pressure starts from Obama for Israel to negotiate with Hamas, you’ll know where it’s coming from.

As if the ties between Code Pink and friends with Obama’s White House and Hamas weren’t disturbing enough, Code Pink also has ties with the Muslim Brotherhood:

Code Pink To Muslims: ‘Help Us Cleanse Our Country’ by Nancy Morgan

As Americans keep a wary eye on Muslim radicals in Yemen, little attention is being given to a far more dangerous enemy right in our own backyard. Under the banner of ‘anti-war’ activism, the radical group Code Pink is running banner advertisements on the English language version of the official Web site of a terrorist sympathizing group, the Muslim Brotherhood, one of which invites the Muslim Brotherhood to “join us in cleansing our country.”

The ad is entitled ‘Arrest The War Criminals.’ Only problem is, Code Pink believes the war criminals are none other than George W. Bush and Co. And they’re actively recruiting radical Muslim terrorists to help them in their cause.

A link on the ad goes to a web site that actually calls for the kidnapping of former President George W. Bush, his wife Laura, his family, and various former administration officials. To date, not a peep has been heard from the Secret Service.

Maybe that’s because Jodie Evans, the co-founder of Code Pink was a top fundraiser for Barack Obama. Or maybe not.

This isn’t the first time the rabid feminist anti-war group has had amicable ties with terrorists. As Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government reports:

“The Muslim Brotherhood published a statement by Code Pink issued in May to promote Code Pink’s trip to Gaza that month. In December, the Muslim Brotherhood published an open letter to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak by Code Pink and the Gaza Freedom March decrying the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow the group passage into Gaza.”

If you’re under the mistaken impression that the Muslim Brotherhood is a benign member of the ‘religion of peace,’ you might want to get the straight poop from David Horowitz’s Discover the Networks. Here.

Once again, yet another radical group is discovered to have close ties to President Obama. Yawn.

We also have a group of American citizens actively rallying jihadists and encouraging them to commit war crimes. Hey, I can hardly keep my eyes open.

Most alarming however is the absolute media silence.Well, they’re not actually silent. They are otherwise engaged in the life and death debate over how many times Harry Reid should apologize for his sin of speaking the truth about race.

The media ‘watchdogs’ are asleep and the ones we trust to protect us are instead offering aid and comfort to our enemies when they’re not prosecuting Navy Seals, CIA officials and anyone else whose job is to keep America safe. What’s wrong with this picture?

Kudo’s to The Jawa Report for being the first to report on this situation. Hopefully they won’t be the last.

So there are ties (including financial ties) between the President of the United States Barack Obama and a radical left wing group (Code Pink) that pays protection money to Hamas and delivers letters from Hamas directly to the White House WHILE ALSO rallying and encouraging jihadists to commit war crimes against former President of the United States George W. Bush, his family, and various former administration officials.

Code Pink does all this as part of Code Pink’s virulent anti-America and anti-Israel agenda.

What’s wrong with this picture, indeed?

(Hat Tip: WrathofG-d)

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Terrorist Profiles. Who are these guys?

by coldwarrior ( 196 Comments › )
Filed under Terrorism at January 10th, 2010 - 3:30 pm

Since the early 1980’s yours truly has been interested in the people who become terrorists. The interest became sort of a job after being posted in West Berlin in the Army. The interest is not so dramatic that it was a matter of survival, it was just curiosity at first, then a sort of fascination and part of a job later. The city had already seen LaBelle Disco Bombing, West Germany had seen numerous activity by Baader-Meinhoff, and the Islamic Terrorists were beginning to get their act together to go after the US. I was fortunate enough, because of my assignment to get a lot of good info and briefings on all these terrorists. The studies continued through college to this day.

So the first question is what is terrorism? The answer is not the flippant response that ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’. I always loathed that quote for its lack of reasoning and over-simplicity. The problem is that the definition of terrorism is very slippery. IIRC, there were over 100 definitions, all had this aspect in common: the use of or the threat of the use of violence. The most succinct that I recall is Sajid Dawar’s, “The act or threat of violence by any individual, group, organization aimed at to secure predetermined ends through illegal channels.” Yes it technically can include silliness like bar fights, so lets combine the previous with Walter Laqueur’s definition, “Terrorism constitutes the illegitimate use of force to achieve a political objective when innocent people are targeted.”

The second question is who are the terrorists? There is an adage in development studies that says that if a man is busy all day trying to feed himself and his family, he has no time to get angry and act out over politics. The uneducated dirt farmer or Bedouin that works sun up to sun down has not time nor energy nor thought to pick up the gun and strike a blow against some unseen and undefined oppressor.

So, who has the surplus energy and the surplus time for the education education necessary to first know why they are angry, and second who the target is? That would be the middle and upper middle classes, this transcends causes and religions. Yes, I know I sound like a Marxists, bear with me. They are driven by hate, not by psychological problems. The hate comes from self loathing of the comfortable situation that they came from in relation to the ‘injustices’ they see all around them.

As THE expert on terrorism psychology (and one of my favorite reads) Jerold Post, MD, has stated: “To counter terrorism, we must get into the mind of the terrorists, and that mind is distinctly not deranged,” Post said. He said terrorist groups systematically work to screen out emotionally unstable people when recruiting because they pose a significant security risk. Instead, Post argues that terrorism is the product of collective identity, shaped over years, as children are indoctrinated with a message of hatred, either from community leaders or religious radicals whose interpretations of scripture are rejected by the vast majority of the population. “One has to understand the perpetrators of this violence — within their own cultural context — and communicate with those not yet fully committed before their identity is consolidated,” Post said

A simple search will turn up the same backgrounds for terrorists, Carlos was the son of a lawyer, the core of Baader-Meinhof Gang, Ulrike Meinhoff could quote Gramsci and Marcuse and was a journalist. The founders of the Red Brigades in Italy were all college students from upper middle classes. The core of the Japanese Red Army were all college students at one time, their families could afford to sent them to school. All spoke of the injustices that they saw and espoused violent overthrow of those systems in which they could have been very comfortable. The poor aren’t the terrorists. If we look at the profiles of the 9/11 terrorists, we find that they all came from above average homes, were nicely educated, and had the mental wherewithal to go to flight school. A look at the leaders of Al-Queda tells the same story. They range from Doctors to Nuclear Engineers.

This latest underwear bomber from Nigeria via Yemen and the
coverage of his family reminded me of some old papers that I wrote a while back. I was not surprised by the press’s astonishment that the bomber came from an upper-class background. I was saddened, yet again, at the all idiot journalism majors and meat sticks with nice hair blathering from the teleprompter about how could a nice boy from such a wealthy family become a terrorist? Terrorists come from wealth, this has been the case practically always.

This is where national security runs into an immigrant conundrum. Its easy to identify an opposing soldier, but very hard to identify a terrorist. The manual laborer isn’t the one flying airplanes into buildings, the college educated immigrant is. But, we want to bring the worlds talent in to grow our country, but that talent might have a price. And what of the press in this last episode….they seemed racists in their astonishment at the luxury of the compound where the gutchie bomber grew up. I will bet they wouldn’t be so surprised if he weren’t a black African.

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Death by Political Correctness

by tqcincinnatus ( 301 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Jihad, Liberal Fascism, Political Correctness, Progressives at November 11th, 2009 - 4:32 pm

The right wing fanatic at Renew America responds to the Fort Hood shooting and to the trend of political correctness in general, and boy is he ticked,

Even beyond these examples, however, we see that political correctness has emerged, especially in the years following 9-11, as a deadly threat to Americans. How? By the fact that it hampers us from being able to defend ourselves against the existential threat to America posed by radical Muslim terrorists. Far from waking up and getting serious about dealing with the threat of Islamofascist terrorists, America has largely followed a course of politically correct head-in-the-sand relativism towards the people who would like nothing more than to destroy America and behead any who don’t convert to their particular version of lunar idolatry. Even in the midst of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — ostensibly being fought to destroy foreign supporters of terrorism — Bush was telling us “Islam is a peaceful religion.” The FBI — the people who are supposed to be investigating and stopping acts of terrorism on American soil — have relied upon the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group with high-ranking members who are known to have supported terrorist organizations, to train its field agents in “sensitivity.” The new watchword of the PC thugs is “Islamophobia,” which can be defined as “a willingness to speak the truth about the ugly aspects of Islam.”

So we see the PC infection having deadly results at Fort Hood, in Texas, where a Muslim terrorist masquerading as a U.S. Army Major ambushed and killed 12 unarmed American soldiers, and wounded 30 others. But wait — we can’t call it terrorism. Instead of calling a spade a spade, the news media concoct all kinds of stories to explain why Major Nidal Malik Hasan would have gone on his shooting rampage. Perhaps it was post-traumatic stress disorder — except that he had never been in combat. Maybe he just empathized with the soldiers with PTSD that he was counseling and broke from the stress — except that he reportedly spent many a counseling session berating them for participating in “the war against Islam” instead of trying to help them through their psychological difficulties. Perchance Maj. Hasan is really the victim here, since at one point several years ago, some guy in his apartment complex allegedly tore a pro-jihad bumper sticker off his car and keyed it? Sure, since we all know that a shooting spree is the entirely appropriate response to a stolen bumper sticker and a keyed car. One thing that the media and the commentators and apparently the President of the United States himself are all agreed on is that we can’t “jump to conclusions” that radical Islamic beliefs had anything to do with a guy shouting “Allah Akbar” while shooting unarmed people.

Read the whole thing!

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Leader Of Islamic Group Killed In Raid…in Detroit

by tqcincinnatus ( 309 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Jihad, Terrorism at October 28th, 2009 - 5:30 pm

The leader of an Islamofascist terrorist cell in Detroit whose goal is to establish an Islamic state inside the United States was shot and killed when he fired at FBI agents during a raid this afternoon.  Unfortunately, an FBI police dog was also shot and killed (hat tip – garycooper),

The Detroit leader of a nationwide fundamentalist Islamic group was fatally shot during a series of FBI raids Wednesday afternoon.

The FBI arrested 10 people who have ties to the group called the Ummah, which translates to “the brotherhood.”

The group’s primary mission is to establish a separate sovereign Islamic state governed by Sunni law, according to FBI charging documents. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, called his followers to an offensive jihad, rather than a defensive jihad.

During the raid, Abdullah, aka Christopher Thomas, fired his weapon, said the FBI in a release. An FBI police dog was shot during the gunfire.

The dog was transported via helicopter to an animal hospital in Madison Heights, but despite the rescue efforts, the dog died.

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The nationwide leader is believed to be Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison for the murder of two police officers in Georgia.

Abdullah Al-Amin preaches violence against law enforcement officials and has trained members of the Ummah inside of a mosque located on Joy Road how to use firearms, martial arts, sword fighting and other types of self defense in anticipation of government violence, according to the FBI.

Undercover agents in the organization have told the FBI that Abdullah used to discipline its members starting at an early age by beating them with sticks on their hands, knees and legs and once he beat a little boy so badly that the child was unable to walk for several days.

In October of 2008, a source the FBI called “credible” recorded statements by Abdullah at a mosque during prayer where he said that Muslims need to cut ties with Christians, Jews, and Kuffars, which the FBI said means all non-muslims.

“Obama is a Kafir. McCain is a Kafir, all the rest of them Kuffars, are Kuffars…. The worst Muslim is better than the best Kafir,” said FBI documents. 

It’s a shame about the FBI dog, but at least no humans were hurt.

The story notes that these guys are converts who took the plunge while in prison.  I don’t know about you, but this sort of shakes my boundless confidence in the peacefulness and tolerance of Islam. 

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